Intake and Exhaust cams backwards?

04OWwhipple

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How would a car run if someone had installed the intake cams on the exhaust side and the exhaust cams on the intake side? Is it even possible?

Would it run pretty smoothly but just be down on power or would it just run horribly all around?

Anyone experienced this situation?
 
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SVT_Troy

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I paid a shop to time my engine and they hooked me up by swapping the drivers bank exhaust and intake cams. It would buck and pop, barely running and you would want to shut it right off. The plugs would be fouled as well.

Running ok but down on power sounds like it could be the cam timing off. Setting cam timing and the effects it has being off I'm not 100% sure on but what i said about the exhaust and intake cams being swapped I am sure on.

Troy
 

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I paid a shop to time my engine and they hooked me up by swapping the drivers bank exhaust and intake cams. It would buck and pop, barely running and you would want to shut it right off. The plugs would be fouled as well.

Running ok but down on power sounds like it could be the cam timing off. Setting cam timing and the effects it has being off I'm not 100% sure on but what i said about the exhaust and intake cams being swapped I am sure on.

Troy

I definitely see how having one bank correct and the other bank incorrect would through everything off and cause it buck/pop and run terribly. I was trying to find factory cam specs and they look damn close between the exhaust and intake cams.

So I'm wondering if it's possible for cams to be swapped on both banks and how things would be affected?. I know it's an out there question/theory and likely not possible at all for it to run, I'm just trying to think outside the box.
 

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This happened to me once. Car was making boost at idle. Just the driver head. Done by the machine shop.


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